The bird's sharp beak is pointed roughly at my neck. Her eyes bulge. She probably weighs about 140 pounds, and as she thumps past me her red wattles swing to and fro and her black feathers give ...

Now, in summer, I notice other gaps in the soundscape, especially the high, raspy thrumming of the meadow katydids. This is a strange grief: The songs are there, but not for me. I miss them.

This bird’s drumming on his body lures the ladies. ... Then he clacks his beak, and it resonates in the sac like a drumbeat, a thrumming love call.

The birds and the bees. ... When startled, they make an odd thrumming sound, which is caused by air moving through their wings. If you listen, you’ll probably hear them cooing.

Hollywood muck also figures prominently in Morgan Richter’s THE DIVIDE (Knopf, 292 pp., $28), a wild ride of a novel that never quite proceeds in the expected direction.Jenny St. John has been ...

But the tiny thrumming birds are unparalleled aerial acrobats, power in miniature, instantly zipping forward and backward, diving quickly down and soaring back up, pitching, rolling and yawing ...

The thrumming is so loud that, at times, it sends tremors through their homes. Now, a local scientist has come up with one possible explanation for the disruption: mating fish.

The lightness is what made the SA RX-7 special. Weighing in at between 2,100 and 2,300 pounds, the 100 horsepower coaxed from the front-mid mounted 1146cc 12A rotary engine was more than enough to ...